Part 1: Lecture 1. Road map: modernism and moral ambiguity
lecture 2. How to read fiction: Joyce's "An encounter"
lecture 3. Defining modernism: Monet's cathedral
lecture 4. Defining modernism: beyond Impressionism
lecture 5. The man who would be king: imperial fools
lecture 6. Heart of darkness: Europe's Kurtz
lecture 7. Heart of darkness: the drama of the telling
lecture 8. The shadow-line: unheroic heroes
lecture 9. The good soldier: the limits of irony
lecture 10. The good soldier: killed by kindness
lecture 11. Lawrence (and Joyce): sex in modern fiction
lecture 12. Horse dealer's daughter: a shimmer within.